Embodiment and Cognitive Science

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Acknowledgments......Page 9
1 Introduction......Page 11
2 Bodies and Persons......Page 24
The First-Person Perspective......Page 25
Bodies and World......Page 26
Bodies and Selves......Page 28
What Do We Notice about Our Bodies?......Page 35
Movement, Body Schemas, and Body Images......Page 37
Disordered Bodies......Page 43
Understanding Other Bodies......Page 45
Bodies and Culture......Page 46
Levels of Embodiment......Page 49
Conclusion......Page 50
An Overview of Embodied Perception......Page 52
The Brain Alone Is Insufficient to Explain Embodied Perception......Page 55
Moving the Body to Perceive......Page 59
Identifying People from Movement......Page 61
Movement in Music Perception......Page 63
Perceiving Causality from Movement......Page 64
Perceiving Movement in Static Patterns......Page 65
Are Perception and Action Separate Activities?......Page 67
Perception as Anticipated Embodied Interaction......Page 74
Sensorimotor Contingency Theory......Page 75
Robotics......Page 79
A Dynamic Model of Intentional Action......Page 83
Conclusion......Page 87
4 Concepts......Page 89
Traditional Views of Concepts......Page 90
Problems with the Traditional View......Page 91
Perceptual Symbols......Page 96
Image Schemas and the Metaphorical Nature of Abstract Concepts......Page 100
Thinking......Page 106
Linguistic Action......Page 109
Grammar and Spatial Concepts......Page 114
Political Ideas......Page 117
Mathematical Concepts......Page 121
Questions about Image Schemas......Page 124
Question about Conceptual Metaphors......Page 125
A New View of Embodied Metaphor......Page 126
Is Cognitive Linguistic Evidence Relevant to the Study of Cognition?......Page 128
Conclusion......Page 131
5 Imagery, Memory, and Reasoning......Page 133
Imagining Human Movement......Page 134
Motoric Processes in Mental Imagery......Page 139
Do Mental Images Arise from the Brain?......Page 144
Image Schemas and Mental Imagery......Page 148
Memory as Embodied Action......Page 152
Working Memory......Page 154
Imagination Inflation......Page 157
Memory for Language......Page 158
Reasoning......Page 161
Summary......Page 167
6 Language and Communication......Page 168
Time Course of Linguistic Communication......Page 169
Language Change......Page 170
Speech Perception......Page 171
Gesture and Speech......Page 175
Body Movements and Discourse......Page 180
Word Meaning......Page 184
Image Schemas and Utterance Interpretation......Page 190
Embodied Metaphor in Figurative Language Interpretation......Page 192
Embodied Action in Metaphor Processing......Page 193
Desire as Hunger: A Case Study in Embodied Metaphor......Page 194
Understanding Time Expressions......Page 197
Embodied Metaphors in American Sign Language......Page 200
Neural Theory of Language......Page 204
Embodied Construction Grammar......Page 208
Embodied Text Understanding......Page 209
A Case Study: The Indexical Hypothesis......Page 215
Conclusion......Page 217
Piaget's Contribution......Page 218
Recent Studies on Physical Reasoning......Page 220
Three Theories of Cognitive Development: Does Experience Matter?......Page 224
The Importance of Embodied Action in Physical Reasoning......Page 226
Perceptual Meaning Analysis: Mandler's Theory......Page 229
Object Permanence Again......Page 234
Children with Physical Handicaps......Page 237
Multimodal Perception......Page 239
Imitation......Page 241
Developing a Theory of Others' Minds......Page 244
Conclusion......Page 247
8 Emotion and Consciousness......Page 249
The Language of Emotions......Page 250
Emotions as Felt Movements......Page 253
Basic Emotions and Facial Expressions......Page 256
Emotions and Bodily Changes......Page 260
A Dynamical View of Emotional Expression......Page 269
Knowing How We Feel: The Interaction of Emotion and Consciousness......Page 271
Consciousness......Page 272
Defining Consciousness and Its Functions......Page 273
Consciousness and Enactment......Page 275
Altered States of Consciousness......Page 278
Consciousness and Self-Organization......Page 280
Conclusion......Page 283
9 Conclusion......Page 285
References......Page 293
Index......Page 335